On 05/01/2013 03:26 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > On 05/01/2013 12:18 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: >> I was testing stuff and well... in the kicad_brd file the sheet date is >> not saved. I found this pearl in TITLE_BLOCK::Format: >> >> /* version control users were complaining, see mailing list. >> if( !m_date.IsEmpty() ) >> aFormatter->Print( aNestLevel+1, "(date %s)\n", >> aFormatter->Quotew( m_date ).c_str() ); >> */ >> >> What is a field useful for if it's not saved? It always come up empty, in >> this >> way. >> >> In many companies the date on a drawing is actually more important than the >> drawing version number (in fact ISO/EN 7200:2004 requires the date of issue, >> which is legally binding for a number of things). Other dates (approval, >> modifications and so on) are optional but the "document date" is mandatory. >> >> I think the best solution would be putting the date as an editable field >> (with >> the title, company and so on): this would eliminate the localization issue >> and >> in the mean time allow a 'significant' date to be set (not necessarily that's >> the last modified date, for a number of reasons). Also the vcs users wouldn't >> have to complain (I don't see the problem if a date changes in a versioned >> file... maybe they don't like it). > > > OK, I remember now. > > > Your suggestion of having it editable is OK for me. But is not OK for > others. There are > 4 schools of thought, and funny thing is you and I are in the same camp after > all. > > > 1) Make it editable, and fixed, not dynamically updated. If I put in a date, > it stays > that way forever on disk too. > > > 2) Make it dynamic (i.e. automatically updated), reflective of the last time > of board > *modification*, not last time of save. > > > 3) Make it dynamic (i.e. automatically updated), reflective of the last time > of board *save*. > > > 4) Remove it, keep it out of the file, until the dispute is settled. > > > We were at 4). If we uncomment the code, we get 2), and then I get yelled at > again by the > VCS users. > > > I don't want to keep getting yelled at. :) It gets hard to remember being > yelled at. > > Jean-Pierre is in camp 2). > > I am in camp 1) or 4), just because the VCS users will eventually win, I > recognize that, > and I want the problem to go away. I use VCS too, and reporting a new date > for every > change is not especially helpful to me, with my VCS user hat on, and > advocating for those > I know will complain later. Been there, and had that conversation already. > > > Help wanted. :) > > > Dick
Newsflash... OK, JP is now OK with 1) also. We have a solution if you can code it. Thanks Lorenzo. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
